Cutting back....already!

[Tom]

Finger Lakes just opened last Friday - already, a horse shortage!
Cancelling racing on 4/24 and 5/7.
Sheeze, it's gonna be a long season! (Maybe not:eek:)

[DJofSD]

Hey, Tom. Don't worry about FL cancelling those couple of days of racing. Just remember you have HOL to look forward too. All the short field racing you can shake a stick at!

[kenwoodallpromos]

I'm beginning to think the sires who make up the breeding stock are getting worse, as well as runnig them hurt and hard tracks.
When colts are taken out of racing to breed at barely 3 years old, how can they really tell the horse and offspring will be hardy? AA is being bred after having a lung infection last year. Did the sires who are considered to breed the hardiest runners (starts-per-year, conformation problems, injuries)? Are records kept on such things, not related to speed, or do sires breeding lesser stock kept secret an kept breeding?